mingw32 cross compiler produces large exe files

[David Purton <dcpurton@chariot.net.au>]

I've noticed that using the mingw32 cross compiler under debian seems to
generate exe files much larger than if I compile under windows.

in the order of 11K to 250K which is fairly significant for a very
simple program with 800B of source code!

Does anyone know why this might be, or if there are settings which might
affect compiled file size?

I could probably provide objdump comparisons, but not at the moment,
since windows is at work.

cheers

dc


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David Purton

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